17 July 2005
life in the so-called blogosphere
When information about people is publicly available it changes the dynamic of communication between people.
Not to say that the whole internet thing didn’t change the communication dynamic, but that’s rather a bit obvious and yet uninteresting to discuss.
Anyway, this leads me to a question: if somebody you know is hospitalized, and somebody else is faithfully posting updates on his condition, should you still call to see how he’s doing? I’m sure the gesture would be appreciated, but does the fact that I even ask this preclude a time later when even such a thing would be considered redundant or pointless? Probably not.